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Bright & early next morning a dozen House and Senate leaders filed into the White House offices to talk War Debts with the President. At his elbow during the two-hour conference were Secretary of State Stimson and Secretary Mills. Speaker Garner, Majority Leader Rainey, Ways & Means Chairman Collier and Senators Harrison and George represented the Democracy in Congress. Eminent Republicans included Minority Leader Snell, Representatives Hawley. Treadway and Bacharach of Ways & Means and Senators Watson and Reed...
...Britain. France and other debtor powers the State Department dispatched notes to the effect that the U. S. would expect full payment Dec. 15 and that the President would recommend another debt commission to Congress. Nothing was said about the certain rejection by Congress of this recommendation. Secretary Stimson's language to Britain made it plain that the Hoover Administration considered her plight graver than France's or Belgium's, that revision by capacity-to-pay would be likeliest in her case...
...Harvard Lampoon were heard from Boston. It was said to be far from an prosperous as its highbred with its delicate humor, the felicity and urbanity of its occasional hoaxes, its sedulous devotion to the high standards set by its founders--such men as Judge Robert Grant, former Ambassador Stimson and Edward S. Martin--entitle it to be. Fortunately, those apprehensions were groundless...
...Before it was silenced by Governor Roosevelt the Press of the land had lugged out all the Democratic Cabinet timber available. Public interest centered chiefly around the State and Treasury portfolios. Last week Secretary of State Stimson announced that he was ready to coach his successor as soon as he was appointed. For this No. i job President-elect Roosevelt, weak on foreign affairs, needs a particularly able Secretary with an expert international knowledge. President Harding had such a man in Charles Evans Hughes. The favorite candidate for Democratic Secretary of State, at least with the Press, is Owen...
Japanese, who had Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in their midst last week, joyously hailed the end of the "Stimson Doctrine" (of non-recognition of land grabs by any nation). They exulted over the personal downfall of Statesman Stimson, whom millions of Japanese regard as their personal enemy...